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Not mentioned, but you can be "rate limited", where you can post up to ~ 3 comments per hour (?not sure), else you get a "posting too fast, please slow down" message. It's keeping us trolls at bay


Cool fact! I always assumed this applied to everyone. I've seen this message on and off for at least a few years. Now I'm wondering why/when this was applied to my account. Interesting!


Related top level comment in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23440929


Didn't know that was a thing. Is it a function of your karma?


No, manually flagged


In my case it is 5 posts per 3 hours.


applies to submissions too




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